Deconstruction

 On Page 188 of his excellent book, Explaining Postmodernism, Professor Stephen R Hicks lays out his description of how postmodernist Marxists schemed in and out of Academia for decades to groom students and the public into accepting their deconstruction of Western thought and culture, in effect separating the masses from their traditional cultural values and mores.

Once Americans are separated from their love of the American Way, then the educated and the young are fairly receptive to embracing Marxist, nihilistic and globalist views and doctrines. 

The clever, patient ploy unleashed on the young and the unsuspecting public by these academic Leftist revolutionaries finally took hold, after about 2015 or so as America is no a woke country where 50% of young people prefer socialism over capitalism.

The revolution is close to being launched, and perhaps we traditionalists and conservatives can yet turn things around, but it will be a close race.

Eric Hoffer's loathing of and fear of intellectuals and idealists is shown to be brilliantly insightful decades ahead of just about anyone else, as he warned then against power-addicted, elitist intellectuals crave to rule our people as slaves and wards of the state.

Their first aim is to make the people lose faith in their traditional culture. Once that bond is severed, and people need metanarratives and a cultural story and its accompanying values to make sense of their suffering and confusing lives, to give them reason, purpose, even a reason to live, love, worship, behave, work, and perpetuate the race.

Hoffer knew clearly that a people without values is a people that are enmasse, misfits and they are fruit ripe for the picking for every demagogue, zealot, revolutionary and ideologically malcontent.

Hoffer realized full well that a people need their American values of liberty, prosperity, capitalism, and independence to remain fitted, quiet, contented and stabilized. He wanted to rule no one, and he wanted the citizens of this greatest nation to fit in, be content, happy, and quiet. Gentle, constant, incremental reforms could be launched and implemented, but also introduced peacefully, and with voluntary acceptance or rejection of such suggestions without violent revenge heaped upon the masses for rejecting the ism of the zealots and would-be oligarchs.

Leftist and elitist intellectuals are not noble idealists, for the most part. They claim the moral high ground, but they actually deconstruct and intentionally undermine good values owned and practiced by the good, common people in order to convert these quiet, happy, peaceful citizens, with their boundless ache to believe in something—even an unholy cause to feel into—transmuted into mass movement devotees controlled and slaughtered by the totalitarian overlords controlling the whip hand.